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15th January 2008, 02:56 AM
|  | TST Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 551 posts. Location: Killadelphia Reputation:  | |  [SOLVED] Wrong processor speed being shown
As a good handful of you know, the 3.3 voltages on my mobo are messed up pretty bad, which prevents me from playing games.
Because of this, I decided to use my dad's computer for a major hardware swap. I swapped my RAM, video card, sound card, ethernet card, PSU, HDD and Processor over to his mobo. I reinstalled Windows XP and are still getting a couple of drivers. The main problem is that when I go to Everest or my System in Control Panel, it says I have only 600mhz for procssor speed, and doesn't even tell me what the processor is. I've spent 13 hours working on this today and so I'd appreciate it if I can get this sorted out quickly. Thanks. 
*The mobo I swapped all of my stuff to is a Foxconn K7S741GXMG-6L and I have no manual for it.
* Also forgot - my processor is an AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ and supposed to be 2.13ghz. I believe the fsb is 133.
* Yet another thing I neglected to add was that I also cleared the CMOS to the post.
Many thanks to Rik for pointing these things out and to anyone who helps.
Last edited by Taima; 15th January 2008 at 03:21 AM.
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15th January 2008, 03:25 AM
|  | Modding Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 848 posts. Location: Northern Ontario, Canada Reputation: | |
Manual checkpoint 1.
Checked and matched as your board. Here is your manual. http://www.foxconnchannel.com/suppor...D=en-us0000187
Warning: you must have the adobe reader program installed. Wait a minute, did you just said mobile athlon xp ? Update your BIOS by here. Your possible solution is to update your BIOS Instruction on how to flash BIOS BIOS file BIOS Flash tools
Your windows update should bring down the updated drivers for you.
Last edited by Howard; 15th January 2008 at 03:55 AM.
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15th January 2008, 12:51 PM
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It could be the processor itself. With the CPU being a mobile processor, it has AMD PowerNow!, which fluctuates the power of the CPU depending on CPU load so it saves power. So if your CPU is running at 100% load it will run at it's normal clocked speed. Theres nothing wrong with your CPU if this is the case as it's normal, but you may be able to disable it in the BIOS if you don't like it
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15th January 2008, 01:27 PM
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try this to see what's in your pc as an alternative to everesthome http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
could be your fsb jumpers
Last edited by tomrca; 15th January 2008 at 01:30 PM.
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15th January 2008, 08:24 PM
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I can't Flash it because I don't have a functioning floppy drive or disks for that matter.
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15th January 2008, 08:45 PM
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A CD-R or CD-RW should work just fine.
You have to extract some bootable files to the CD, so it can boot into dos.
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15th January 2008, 08:47 PM
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Bootable files?
And can the BIOS burn to cd?
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15th January 2008, 09:23 PM
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Here is the few things
You can use any burning program, but you need to force it to be bootable CD, then add the BIOS tools and BIOS file into it.
Boot your foxconn with a cd, it should boot to dos and you can run the bios tool from there.
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15th January 2008, 09:38 PM
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k i just ran to my neighbors house and they let me have a cd ( i was out of those too.) too bad it's not RW but it's better than nothing
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15th January 2008, 09:40 PM
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It is ok, now you need the bootable files to start into dos.
You know where to start?
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15th January 2008, 09:52 PM
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not a clue
btw i dont see how the bios files will help. one is for cpu temps and the other is for not being able to boot from a cd
Last edited by Howard; 15th January 2008 at 11:04 PM.
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15th January 2008, 09:56 PM
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Ok, I'll try to get you some files.
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15th January 2008, 10:02 PM
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much appreciated. It'll give me some time to get a burning program lol
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15th January 2008, 10:04 PM
| | Modding Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 848 posts. Location: Northern Ontario, Canada Reputation: | | |
How about you grab Ahead nero 6 or Magic ISO ?
It have the nice feature to let you to burn a bootable cd
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15th January 2008, 10:09 PM
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k...just letting you know, im having another problem with this thing. It keeps freezing on me ...its done it twice in the past 20min
just got MagicISO trial thing
Last edited by Howard; 15th January 2008 at 11:05 PM.
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15th January 2008, 10:27 PM
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Try it out
But before you burn it
You need to create the new bootable project
and drag, drop the BIOS tool and BIOS file
Hope this works.
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15th January 2008, 10:34 PM
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The link for the BIOS flash tools don't work
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15th January 2008, 10:35 PM
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Ok, what bios are you using on Foxconn ?
Award bios or Phoenix Bios?
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15th January 2008, 10:36 PM
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90% sure its Phoenix
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15th January 2008, 10:39 PM
| | Modding Expert | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 848 posts. Location: Northern Ontario, Canada Reputation: | | |
There is only way to make sure.
Go back to your computer
when you start it up
press escape as fast as you could
keep looking at the top-left corner and see what BIOS they are using
It should says AWD or Phenix bios.
can you do that
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